In announcing the results of the auction last week, auctioneer Michael A. Fine did not disclose the identity of winning bidder for the camp and ranger house or the bid amount. Fine did say the high bidder for the camp planned "to keep the property very much the way it is."

A separate bid was accepted for a broadcast tower on the property. The high bid was $385,000.

Conservationists saw a rare opportunity in the auction of Camp Tadma to add to the state's stock of protected woodlands. The camp is contiguous to the state's 350-acre Bear Hill Wildlife Management Area and 450 acres of farmland where the state owns the development rights.

The state of Connecticut said it declined to bid because a short time frame for the auction did not allow for proper due diligence. The Connecticut office of the Trust for Public Land confirmed that it had submitted a bid.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said last week it would be interested in working with the future owner — both to protect the woodlands as a natural resource and evaluate options for public access.

On its Facebook page, Revelation Church positions itself as an alternative to traditional churches with the tagline: "So people far from God experience radical transformation through Christ." The church now meets and has its headquarters in a former storefront.

The Boy Scouts put the camp, opened in the late 1940s, up for auction amid declining attendance and mounting financial losses.